Random phone pictures

Here are some random pictures from my phone.

Middle aged spiderman! For some reason Will decided to put his blanky in his spiderman costume and make it look like he had a great beer belly! I figured later it was cause spiderman can't hold onto his blanky while fighting bad guys so he needed a place to put it!

Our church play group went to Cici's pizza and they gave the kids a tour of the kitchen and showed them how they make the pizzas and then the boys got to make a pizza and eat it! They loved seeing the back and they especially loved the arcade. It was great because it was done before they opened so the kids could just play and we didn't have to worry about them!

Their pizza before it was baked!

My little super heros!

Spidey needed to go for a ride!

I am so excited now that I can post videos!!

This is so much fun. We weren't able to posts videos when we got the macs and I thought I'd give it a try a couple of days ago and looky here it works!! Now I posted Wills birthday song. I will have to look and see what videos I have to post! Yea!!

William won AIrman of the Quarter!

About a week and a half ago one of the commanders came into Wills office and asked him if he had submitted his package for Airman of the Quarter. William was shocked because he had only been in the wing for a quarter and figured that he hadn't been there long enough to even put in for such an award. Well his commander told him that he had to have it completed by the end of the day. William than worked really hard on doing his best package, but figured he wouldn't win it cause he had only been there for a quarter. Today was the awards ceremony and William was awarded Airman of the Quarter for the 98th Range Wing! I am really proud of what a rising star he has become since working with the 98th. The ceremony was a much bigger to do than we thought it would be, they had the honor guard and the event was catered. It was an adult only type of event so I missed it, but I am very proud of how awesome he has done!

The honor guard

I thought this was funny cause they took a picture of the chaplain while he was praying!

William greeting the Colonel to receive his award

Here he is with the plaque that they presented him.

Here is a picture with all the perspective winners

Another picture of the winners

Running Day 17

Tonight I actually didn't truly dread running. I mean I still put it off until the last very minute that I possibly could, but not because I didn't want to go, but because it is a habit. Tank and I went a new route tonight. Tank did not like this. He likes the old route where he knows all the dogs and the smells. Well tonight we left the neighborhood and went on base. We stayed close to the neighborhood. We went up and out of the neighborhood and took a bike trail to freedom park then ran around freedom park and back to our house. Tank wasn't fond of this route because he kept thinking another dog was following us, his shadow. It really unnerved him. Then we saw several bunnies that made him scared too! So much for my big watch dog! The one part about the new route I was on was that the sprinklers were on at freedom park and as I ran past one it decided to turn and hit me square in my face. It was not a sprinkle but a full hose into my face!! I then had to run the rest of the way sopping wet! I may have to rethink parts of this route since i don't want to get wet when it is cold! I did love how everthing was new and I wasn't bored by where I was. I had to think of where to go next. The bad part is that I have no idea how far i went. I guess I will have to clock it in the car. My legs are sore and I have an early morning tomorrow. Off to bed for me!

The Fire House

This week is fire safety and prevention on base. This means that we were able to go visit the base fire department! It was so much fun. The firemen showed us around all of their fire house. We got to see where they eat, cook, relax, their offices and even dispatch. Since we are on an Air Force base the Firemen are trained on how to fight building fires and plane fires. So they have two structure trucks and two airplane trucks. The boys got to sit in and pretend to drive both. Then at the end of our tour Sparky the fire dog came and visited with us. The boys even got coloring books, fake badges and stickers. I got a large magnet for the fridge and an oven mitt! I can safely say that fire safety and prevention week is a huge hit at the Bennett household! We can hardly wait until next year.

The boys and Sparky

Here they are in the airplane truck. James is driving while Will navigates!

James is really getting a hang of the driving.

Lil'Will taking a turn at the wheel.

James' new best friend

Carol and Gary gave Lil'Will this spiderman that sings songs and dances. The boys love it. William really like the microphone that it came with. He loves to make spiderman sing and then he sings along. But he is real protective of his spiderman, if he is playing with it than no one is allowed to join, cause they may mess up his singing. Yet if he is playing with a different toy then the kids are allowed to play with spiderman. Well, this being said James is really enamored with spiderman. He loves him. He would sleep with him if I let him. He loves to hear it sing and watch him dance. He just loves holding it. Well in these photos James woke up before Will did and therefore got the chance to have spiderman all to himself. He brought him onto the couch to watch tv! He is so cute. I also found spiderman in the baby carrier. I don't know where he was going but he was strapped in real nice. I have that picture on my phone. I will have to post that one soon!

James and spiderman watching curious george

This was the first picture, before he realized I thought he was cute!

Running Day 16

So I think that I am on day 16, I can not be completely positive. I posted day 3 on the 25th which would make this the 16th day of running. I haven't posted much of my running since my Dad complained that I only post about me now and not the kids! Yet at the same time I don't want people to think that I have stopped running. Cause I am still at it! Tank has been a help since he loves to go and get his daily run, or a better term would be prance since he doesn't really have to exert much energy to keep up with me. Tonight while William was at the temple I started to watch CSI NY which turned out to be scary so of course I am completely freaking myself out cause I run in the middle of the night. Plus I run through the neighborhood cause I feel it is safer than to be by the flight line or the golf course in the middle of the night and they are tearing down half of the neighborhood due to it being super old, but they are not rebuilding those homes on this side of base so it will be all new military building which means that they are tearing up those roads, so I tell you this since I will not be able to continue to run my usual route I will have to learn a new one. I thought that tonight I would forge out the neighborhood to form a new route but after the scary show i decided to stay in the neighborhood and just run the small circle twice. Sad I know. Maybe one day I will be brave enough to venture out into the base as well as run during day light hours! Two of my biggest fears!

Beef Stew

In honor of a nice cool day, it only got to 67! We had a lovely beef stew and homemade rolls! It was my first time making stew. I did it in the dutch oven and it was marvelous! Hopefully we will have many more cool days to come!

Lil'Wills 4th Birthday Party

Ever since we moved to Vegas we have done a very low key birthday for Lil'Will. We have always gone to Nana's house, which is his favorite place, and had some friends come over and do cake and ice cream. Very simple. Well, I have felt guilt about it especially since he has wanted a big party with all of his friends and a jumpy house for about 1 1/2 now. So this year we had a super fun birthday party. We had about 12 youngsters come and jump in the jumpy house, we pretended to be batman and we had a pinata! He was so happy. He had been counting down the days since June, we made a paper chain to help him! I am so happy that he had such a great day.

Sorry that this one is sideways, this was a fireman getup that was a gift. He loves it!

Again with the sideways, these are my super heroes, Batman!

James loves his Batman mask, he wears it a lot!

This was after the pinata was finally broken. It took forever to break the pinata, and then when it did break the kids just stood there and slowly picked what they liked. Nothing like when we say a pinata as kids!

Savanna taking a swing.

Lil'Will after taking a swing

William getting Batman ready to be bludgeoned by four year olds!

Opening gifts was complete mayham! I have no idea who gave Will what he just ripped them open and moved on to the next one! It was super crazy! Thank you everyone for the great gifts! Look at all those Towheads! We could hardly tell them apart!

Lil'Will and his friend Mason.

Lil'Will enjoying all the birthday fun!

Funny story here, Um I only put three candles on his cake! I know I am a complete blonde. No one told me that I had the wrong number on until after we sang and he blew out the candles. And yes that is a Strawberry Shortcake Cake. He wanted that one and I waited over two weeks before I ordered it hoping that he would change his mind, but alas he got what he wanted!

Lil'Will, Savanna and Maddy going for a ride!

I tried to make the cake look manly by all the batman decorations, but it didn't work. We figure it will be blackmail for when he starts dating girls!

Tank and the Cold

I can't believe I have actually run 10 days in a row! That is super crazy. In celebration of having run 10 days in a row I brought a special running partner with me, Tank. Since Nana is visiting our loved ones in Rhode Island, which we are jealous that we don't get to go, we have the honor of sharing our home with Tank. For those of you who don't know Tank is a huge Golden Retriever. He is probably the longest dog I have ever lived with. I am always running into him twice. The first time by accident and then the second time cause I see most of him and think he has moved, but he hasn't moved far enough. He is a joy to have around and he keeps the puggies up and running for most of the day. The boys love him cause they can ride him like a horse and he loves it! Well, since he is a large dog and we have a small yard William and I decided that one would run with him in the morning and the other at night. William drove Mom and Trent to the airport this morning and got stuck in bad traffic coming home so he missed running with Tank this morning, so I had to bring the big boy with me tonight. He was so good. I was afraid that he was going to have to stop to go the bathroom, cause the pugs would, or that he would bark at all the other dogs while running past their homes, but he was wonderful and he never barked! I loved having him with me cause he made me run faster, by pulling me through the neighborhood. It made me laugh cause he never made it past a slight jog, so I am sure that I didn't wear him out that much, but it brought some much needed speed to my work out.

Also tonight we went out to Toys R Us to see what Lil'Will would like for his birthday. We had so much fun watching the boys run up and down the aisles. It really is like a dream for them to just look and touch all these great toys. What made me laugh was that Lil'Will wanted whatever was in front of him, even if he already owns it! But it did give us some good ideas for us when we go back tomorrow sans the boys. But the best part of the evening was that after Toys R Us we wondered over to Target to get some little odds and ends. When we left the store it was about 9 o'clock and the temperature had dropped. Since we had to walk back to the car which was parked in front of Toys R Us we were outside longer than we normally would be at this time of night and we were freezing!! We were so cold that we were all shivering and we couldn't wait to get in the car to start the heat! William looks at me after we got in the car and says, "look on your phone to see the temp right now. It has got to be at least in the low 50's, brrr". So I look on my phone, while I am turning the heat on high, and I start laughing cause it is only 66 degrees! We were acting like it was 30! William and I both laughed so hard cause we think we can handle the cold, but apparently not! I guess I have to agree with the newscaster, it is definitely sweater weather! I thought you would all enjoy that little story! Have a good laugh at our thin blood!